It’s fun to be on social networking websites, with all those stimulating and interesting features, meeting so many people and thousands of applications to play with; social networking now became one important part of life. Although, for many it’s just a time pass but for many others it’s best utilization of their time. I love the art of photography and since the introduction of digital cameras it made so handy to click and share your favorite shots to your friends, so while searching a good community related to photography I came across an online group on orkut.com which is in true meaning utilizing social networking to its highest level by communicating and sharing useful resources. This community is not simply dedicated to photographers and photography but it is a complete index of hardcore professional digital photography discussion forum full of photography enthusiast from every part of the world. Welcome to the Digital Photography Forum on orkut.com.
Digital Photography Forum on Orkut.com is a paradise for every photography enthusiast either an amateur or a professional photographer. It’s a lively place loaded with knowledge, information, art and fun. Interestingly, Digital Photography Forum (DPF) is first community of its kind I have seen which has no additional moderators accept an owner but DPF looks better moderated than any other online community on orkut with several moderators, all credit goes to the dedicated active members of DPF who are no less than a joyful online family. This 100% spam free community is full of activities; just browse their forum and you will notice that there are forum threads for every subject discussing both technical and compositional aspects of digital photography. Estimated more than 8000 forum topics and more than 50000 photos have been shared till now on DPF which is quite amazing. Founded in January 2004 by Mary Ivers, a piano teacher and a photographer from Unites States, DPF is also one of the oldest orkut communities, though Mary is not active as a member but she regularly moderates the community.
Jinan Shah
“It’s always tough to find such a transparent communication towards learning process, which has been possible because of Orkut and so in Digital Photography Forum community” Said Jinan Shah a telecommunication engineer based in Texas (USA) and one of the most active members of DPF. Jinan is an amateur photographer who got introduced with DPF by an unknown orkut user who used to ask him questions concerning photography and to answer those questions Jinan had joined DPF and still thankful to that unknown stranger. Jinan is a popular member of DPF who also took initiative to re-start an old concept of Photographer of The Week (POW) thread, this thread is a very useful source of motivation and inspiration to all members. Jinan says that after joining DPF he understood that “Digital Photography is an ocean and I don’t know even a drop of it” such learning spirit and passion for photography gave him an opportunity to meet some very talented and experienced photographers as his mentor and friends. One such prominent name is Rammohan Pai a 44yr old working in a Multinational Company based in Milwaukee U.S.A, Ram is known as one of the most respected and senior member of DPF who is always keen to help others with his knowledge and experience in his most favorite passion Photography. However, Ram was often active in other community forums related to photography outside orkut but when he came to know about DPF he was thrilled. He said “DPF has openness of the membership and a strong sense of humor, Differences of opinion are handled in a mature way and there is space for everyone’s views and opinions on DPF. Any strong difference is often closed with a lot of humor so that no bad taste is left at the end.”
Photo by R Prasana
Photo by R Prasana
Like Jinan Shah and Ram Mohan Pai there are hundreds of talented and passionate members discussing on landscape, street, wildlife, portrait and macro photography in this community, though every active member of this community plays an important role but if to name few than the list goes like Ankur, Jaspreet, Chandra, Vrushali, Lalit, Pentaxian, Ashish, Sheshu, Rax, Rajshree, Chirag, Arpit, Sumit, Nilos, Serendipity, Pranshu, Debasis, Swapnil, Pramod, R.Prasana, Srini, Manu, Prasad, Karthick, Varun, Kaustubh, Pankaj and Chubby. Some most active threads including post the picture and rate the above, Favorite photograph of the person above and many more are always seen on top 10 active topics but threads related to camera reviews and comparisons, software processing, compositional rule and theory of exposures are some useful subjects one can also find on DPF.
R Prasana
R Prasana Venkatesh from India is a self taught professional photographer specialized in Advertizing photography is among the team of active professional photographers of DPF and also chosen as Photographer of the Week by Jinan, well known as Prasana, he simply loves photography and shares his every bit of experiences as a pro photographer in this beautiful orkut community DPF. More than an hour on DPF posting replies and reading threads every day Prasana is a big contributor on DPF, he also started a thread called “Business of Photography” in which he is explaining about professional photography and the things to be done to survive in this competitive field .From Initial setup to Money management. The thread is worth reading.
Digital Photography Forum is blessed with talented, friendly and supportive group of people. Such example of successful online community in any social network is rare. If you know any such online group or communities than let us know by contacting us on zazo@flockpost.com, we would be happy to feature your favorite group on Orkut Heroes Blog.
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Warm Wishes to be a ” ORKUT HERO “. Happy & Proud to have a client like you in my Company Profile.
Waiting to see u soon as ” HERO ” of ” INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY ”
Regards,
Steve
Thanks for your Comments Steve.Full credit goes to Digital Photography Forum Community in Orkut.They have been encouraging me and supporting me from the beginning itself and there are many members who are worthy than me.And thanks to Orkutheroes for this honour
regards
R.Prasana
http://www.rprasanna.com
Thank you Steve.Full credit goes to the members of Digital Photography forum community which is a great place to learn this Art.The members of the community have been really supportive and encouraging from the beginning itself.I must also thank orkutheroes for honouring our DPF community.Thanks again
The credit goes to the all the members active in the forum and especially the senior members who are selfless in sharing knowledge and pointing out mistakes.
Thanks for writing a lovely article on our community and I hope many will join and share their knowledge after reading this.
There are over thousand Photography communities in Orkut, so what makes this such a unique Community .. definitely the Members.
So cheers! to The members of the Digital Photography forum Community
Regards
Serendipity and Santosh,
Truly said. DPF is rocking community cause community members love their passion at their best. Its so great to be part of DPF. Three cheers to DPF:)
JInan
Dear Steve,
Many many thanks to you for honoring the Great people of DPF. The members are really fantastic. Rammohan Pai, R.Prasanna, Vrushali, Rajesh… Everyone has an unique style of photography.
DPF Rocks !!!
Cheers !!!
~Lalit~
Wow!
Delighted to see my forum getting recognised.
I thank you all who were involved in this process.
Alhad.
This is great !!
Itz the best community in ORKUT I have ever come across!! All seniors are so kind, humble and helpful to others. Infact I was a little surprised in the begining when I saw so many great photographers in the community. Everyday I am learning….something..
Greetings,
Anurag
DPF has become a true knowledgebase for the people who loves photography. Seeing excellent photos, concepts, technics… all of these make this forum real fun.
Thanks a lot for honoring this forum. Wish DPF a grand success.
Cheers,
Sumit
this is awesome man..it really is..
its a treasure of knowledge, learn as much as u can..
kudos to all the members..
Good Work ZaZo.
DPF rocks. [:)]
kudos to DPF and to my dear prasanna. great job guys. this community really rocks. congrats
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One of the most, eh, not one of the most, but, the most active forum i've ever been in orkut and yes, the enthusiastic sharing of knowledge in this forum is beyond compare.
Professionals giving their opinions and sharing their experiences, and inspiring us commoners with their quality shots,, newcomers and would-be-camera-buyers posting their queries and doubts, eagerly helped by the members,,, you post any problem or doubt, you'll always find an eager forum to answer your problems,,
And, yes, Jinan, Ram and Prasanna are awesome photographers,, so are the other mentions,, proud to be a member
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